Essam el-Haddad

Essam el-Haddad (14 November 1953-) was a Freedom and Justice Party politician in Egypt and a senior leader of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Biography
Essam el-Haddad was born in Alexandria, Egypt on 14 November 2013, and he earned a bachelor's degree in medicine from Alexandria University. He was elected president of a student union at his university, and he later went to study in the United Kingdom, where he co-founded the Islamic Relief charity organization. Haddad became involved with the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood organization and served as an adviser to President Mohamed Morsi in 2012, entering politics as a Freedom and Justice Party member. After Abdel Fattah el-Sisi's counter-coup against Morsi, el-Haddad was held under solitary confinement at the al-Aqrab prison in Cairo.